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Matisyahu Interview - Motorcityblog, Detroit

In the late afternoon of Monday, December 7th, 2009, my friend Z-man and I met up at historic St. Andrewâs Hall in downtown Detroit to interview musician and recording artist Matisyahu before his concert performance later that evening. After playing a bit of phone tag with Matisyahuâs tour manager, we were told that the interview would be taking place on the tour bus. Although we were happy to oblige the wishes of our interviewee, a tour bus is rarely a great place for a recorded interview. As a result the audio recording has the background hum of the bus generator, which Z-man was able to minimize as much as possible. Also, despite being a rather dynamic, and captivating performer on stage, in person Matisyahu was rather soft spoken making Z-manâs task of capturing the interview and making it listenable an even greater challenge.

As a result, weâve cut the interview into individual questions or groups of questions which can be listened to separately, or on one single recording. The recording has been edited to minimize noise and maximize the vocals, although you may want to listen to this with headphones, or with your speakers turned up as Matisyahuâs more pensive responses were sometimes almost inaudible.